There's only one rational response to this new threat: Surgical inspections. Nothing too invasive, just a little topical anesthetic and some minor slicing and dicing and possibly a bit of probing, all to be conducted by TSA personnel who have completed an intensive two-week seminar.

(Photo of the masses breezing through airport screening at Denver's airport courtesy of oddharmonic via Flickr.)

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